Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases of yellow fever are reported on the steamer City of Pueblo, at quarantine in New York, from Havana...
...attend to the masculine "small-fry" who might be present. Asphyxia was dressed in a saffron colored cashmere. The skirt was perfectly plain and fell in natural folds to within six inches of the ground; her feet and ankles coming into prominence thereby, were encased in low shoes and yellow stockings which were within a shade or two of the color of her dress. The waist of this costume was of the same color and material as the skirt and was full in front with plaited puffs on the shoulders and very tight sleeves, and was finished...
...gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will...
Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand...
...strokt his yellow hair...